Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Constructor \Con*struct"or\, n. [Cf. LL. constructor.] A constructer.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who, or thing that constructs 2 (context programming English) A class method (in object-oriented programming) that creates and initializes each instance of an object 3 ''(motorsport)'' A company or individual who builds racing vehicles. In Formula One, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructors%20(Formula%20One) status is strictly defined by the rules, but in other motorsports the term is merely a descriptor. Depending on the racing rules, some constructors (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosworth) may provide vehicles to racing teams who are not themselves constructors , while others are both teams and constructors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducati%20Corse, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuderia%20Ferrari).
WordNet
n. someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) [syn: builder]
Wikipedia
Constructor may refer to:
- Constructor (object-oriented programming), object-organizing method
- Constructor (video game), a 1997 PC game by Acclaim, the prequel of Constructor: Street Wars
- Constructors (Formula One), person or group who builds the chassis of a car in auto racing, especially Formula One
- Constructor (software), a software product by Graphisoft used to schedule and estimate buildings
- Constructor Group AS, a Norwegian-based group specialising in shelving, racking and storage systems
- An entity in Constructor theory, a theory of everything developed by physicist David Deutsch in 2012.
In class-based object-oriented programming, a constructor (abbreviation: ctor) in a class is a special type of subroutine called to create an object. It prepares the new object for use, often accepting arguments that the constructor uses to set required member variables.
A constructor resembles an instance method, but it differs from a method in that it has no explicit return type, it is not implicitly inherited and it usually has different rules for scope modifiers. Constructors often have the same name as the declaring class. They have the task of initializing the object's data members and of establishing the invariant of the class, failing if the invariant is invalid. A properly written constructor leaves the resulting object in a valid state. Immutable objects must be initialized in a constructor.
Programmers also use the term constructor to denote one of the tags that wraps data in an algebraic data type. This is a different usage than in this article.
Most languages allow overloading the constructor in that there can be more than one constructor for a class, with differing parameters. Some languages take consideration of some special types of constructors. Constructors, which concretely use a single class to create objects and return a new instance of the class, are abstracted by factories, which also create objects but can do so in various ways, using multiple classes or different allocation schemes such as an object pool.
Constructor is an extended version of the CAD software ArchiCAD from Graphisoft.
It includes construction related tools and extends Building information modeling capabilities of ArchiCAD so that the building 3D model can be connected to popular scheduling applications, and cost estimating packages.
Constructor is a 1997 video game released originally for MS-DOS Personal Computers, and later ported to the PlayStation, Mac and Windows-native DirectX 3. It was developed by System 3 and published by Acclaim.
In the game, packed with humorous undertones, the player controls a construction company in a map split between several estates, and must deal with other teams to win the game.
On July 31, 2015, System 3 announced that Constructor was getting an HD re-release on consoles and PC, in 2016.
Usage examples of "constructor".
Only a twilight dimness illuminated the little glass sanctum of the inventor and constructor of the Mortlake Aeroplane.
And, in that precise instant of infinite possibility, the Constructors fired their Nonlinearity Engines.
Watchers had taken the crude, explosive Nonlinearity Engines developed by the Constructors and developed them to a fine pitch.
On the eighteenth day we encountered the eastward-bound telegraphconstructors at Reese River station and sent a message to his Excellency Gov.
But the constructors had not concerned themselves about the speed of these machines, whose walking was not to serve as a means of transportation but, rather, to perform heavy tasks.
The constructors of that building over there had called in the bulldozers to strip down every inch of the properly they owned before anybody started to work putting up the foundation.
Gabriel King called their quasi-organic nanotech constructors shamirs, after the magical entity which had helped Solomon build his temple when his laborers had been forbidden the use of conventional tools, but this was the first time Charlotte had seen an edifice worthy of the labor of fabulous mythical creatures.
Baltimore II are worried, but the Congressional investigation showed that the fault lay with the constructors of New Salem, who should have provided against the vicissitudes.
She did not like Wylder, I thought, although she had been the inventor and constructor of the family alliance of which he was the hero.
We have no doubt that the song may give evidence of a genius which shall deserve to be ranked with the constructor of an epic.
It was the fashion to do as did Khipil, and fancy the tongue a constructor rather than a commentator.
General Claviger was of the number, that well-known constructor of scientific frontiers in India or Africa.
The click and titter of the machines is fading as they enter sessile phase, cannibalising their own bodies to make the big underground placentories that will spawn the next generation of constructors tomorrow.
One evening, when the weary constructors had finally dragged themselves off to bed, the components of the apparatus they had been working on were quickly transported by unmarked balloon to police headquarters and assembled by eighteen of the finest cyberneticians in the land, who had been deputized and duly sworn in for that very purpose, whereupon a gray tin mouse ran out from under their hands, blowing soap bubbles and dropping a thin trail of chalk dust from under its tail, which spelled, as it danced this way and that across the table, WHAT, DON'T YOU LOVE US ANYMORE?
Inside its warship body, in narrow, unlit, unheated, hard-vacuum spaces, constructor drones struggled to install or complete sensors, displacers, field generators, shield disruptors, laserfields, plasma chambers, warhead magazines, manoeuvring units, repair systems and the thousands of other major and minor components required to make a functional warship.